My grandma and dad call them mangos. Another man in his 50's also calls them that. This causes a few debates in our family.
2007-09-14 09:37:32 · 0 answers · asked by jeannie_brim 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
I know what the difference is. I guess a better question would be: Where did this term originate and don't THEY knwo the difference.
2007-09-14 09:53:01 · update #1
Based upon the following web article, mango = bell pepper seems to be common from the old folks that live in the Midwest.
GREEN PEPPERS AND MANGOS
The word ‘mango’ is used in some areas to refer to green peppers or stuffed green peppers. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri ... I believe explains how and why the usage of the word spread along the path it did. Usage of 'mango' for green peppers seems to have originated with coal miners in eastern Pennsylvania (1870s +) - and spread with the mining industries, and then with the miners families as they migrated to new areas and found new jobs.
But why the word 'mango' for green peppers? Many of these coal miners were of Eastern European origin, and it has been suggested that the word may have a Slovak origin.
2007-09-14 09:46:28 · answer #1 · answered by Dave C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mango Peppers
2016-10-22 01:14:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of this as a green pepper and a mango are two totally different things. A green pepper is used in cooking while a mango is a fruit that can be eaten straight off the tree. I have actually climbed a mango tree in Jamaica to knock mangos down for the children waiting below
2007-09-14 09:47:50 · answer #3 · answered by Sir Jam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strange I have never heard of that.
Mango's are a fruit, green peppers are a vegetable.
2007-09-14 09:50:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ii guess they were taught that from some of the ancestors. i know the difference. i went to the store for a old lady,she was 80 yrs.old i came back with a mango, that is a fruit. i was called a dummmmy, but she was the dummy.she didnt know the different between mango and a green bell pepper
2015-04-08 03:33:51 · answer #5 · answered by y 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but I do know that green peppers are vegetable and mangoes are fruit. Must be a regional idiosyncracy.
2016-03-16 09:09:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
um..unfortunately i think someone may have given them wrong info...because mangos are definitely not green peppers...they are fruit.
2007-09-14 09:47:09 · answer #7 · answered by Denise W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋